Periplasmic protein thiol:disulfide oxidoreductases of Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 303-316

  Fabianek, Renata A ^a   Hennecke, Hauke ^a   Thöny Meyer, Linda ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C X X C motif; Cytochrome c maturation; Dsb protein; Periplasmic protein folding; Redox control; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DISULFIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN;

BIOGENESIS; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOMERISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN DISULFIDE REDUCTASE (GLUTATHIONE);

EID: 0034115404     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(00)00028-0     Document Type: Review

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